Weezer Set 20th Album ‘The Gold Album’ for August, Citing a Catalog-Wide Shift After ‘Go Away’ Resurgence

Weezer will release their 20th studio album, The Gold Album, on August 21. Co-produced by Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume (who worked on Geese’s Getting Killed), the record follows two singles: “Shine Again,” penned by drummer Patrick Wilson without any thought of Weezer, and “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” featuring the North Carolina band Wednesday.

The duet with Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman grew directly from the viral resurgence of “Go Away,” the 2015 deep cut with Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino. Rivers Cuomo told Rolling Stone that the song’s unexpected traction rewired how he sees the band’s catalog. “If it can happen with ‘Go Away,’ it could happen to any of our songs,” he said, noting that the experience convinced him to try another duet. Hartzman, Cuomo recalled, sat down, pulled up a text file on her phone, and sang her idea over the track on the spot: “I was just blown away.”

Wilson, meanwhile, will not drum on the upcoming tour. Burnout and physical strain led him to step aside last year, with Josh Freese filling in. Wilson describes a grind of physical therapy and says he hopes to return to the kit for 2026 shows. “I’m 57. I’m just trying to get straightened out so that we get through the tour and we’ll be the classic version.”

Unlike the 30th-anniversary arena run for the Blue Album, the band has no plans to mark three decades of Pinkerton this September.